” The housemaid’s presence acted as a useful restraint. It did not cheer or fortify him with false courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. ‘Here, miss,’ came faintly from somewhere close at hand. You know that. " The feminine vanities in Ruth were quiescent; nothing had ever occurred in her life to tingle them into action. ‘I trust you were not altogether disgusted when I kissed you. Mrs. Isn’t that why we are out here?” “Why did you deny you were a vampire? Why are you keeping it a secret?” “I do not share the fact that I am a cannibal with the human race. "Oh, I've read that!" Spurlock had heard distinctly enough all of this odd conversation; but until the spinster's reference to the family album, no phrase had been sufficient in strength of attraction to break the trend of his own unhappy thoughts. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. But there was, it insisted, no mobility in his face, no movement, nothing about him that warmed. "It's a pump, like an organ.
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